About This Artwork

David Gilmour Blythe
American, 1815-1865

Old Virginia Home, 1864

Oil on canvas
52.7 x 73 cm (20 3/4 x 28 3/4 in.)
Signed left foreground: "WGBlythe"
Signed on bottom of barrel at right: "H.A. Wise"
Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund, 1979.55

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Pittsburgh, Exhibition of Paintings and Statuary in Aid of the Pittsburg Fair Fund of the United States Sanitary Commission, Together with Paintings Contributed by the Artists of Pittsburgh and Others, for Sale for Benefit of the Fair, June 1–18, 1864, cat. 240.

Mercantile Library Association of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Loan Exhibition, 1879, cat. 39.

Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, The Works of David Gilmour Blythe, Oct. 17, 1980–Jan. 11, 1981, cat. 192; traveled to Rochester, New York, Memorial Art Gallery, Feb. 7, 1981–Apr. 5, 1981, Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, May 7, 1981–July 5, 1981.

Richmond, Virginia Historical Society, Inventing Old Virginia: The Decline and Rise of a Pastoral Ideal, Feb. 15, 2003–June 8, 2003.

Publication History

Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), p. 194, fig. 46.

Eric Foner, “The Civil War and the Story of American Freedom,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 1 (2001), p. 21, pl. 5.

Ownership History

Joseph Horatio Davis, Sewickley, Penn., 1864; Mrs. Louis L. Browne (Martha G.), Sewickley, Penn., 1913; estate of Louis Browne, 1973; Gailey Wilson and Son, Hickory, Penn., 1973; Louise Wilson, Hickory, Penn, 1977; David David Incorporated, Philadelphia, 1979; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1979.